Marcus also continued to deny PayPal’s involvement in the recent incident in
which the company allegedly divulged the last four credit-card
numbers of the California web developer Naoki Hiroshima, who
was being extorted by hackers for his twitter handle, @N.

“That actually didn't happen,” Marcus shot back to one commenter
who raised the issue.

But nobody, it seems, is immune from the recent wave of hackings
that has inundated thousands of consumers, leading retailers and
web companies nationwide including Target, Neiman Marcus, GoDaddy, Michael’s and Yahoo.

Marcus added that his information had been stolen by hackers “at
the hotel I was staying at. They then cloned it and went on a
shopping spree.”

Of note is that Marcus’s card featured EMV technology (a small
chip that generates new codes for every transaction), which is
pervasive throughout the rest of the world. Though many believe EMV could be the solution to
America’s recent hacking woes, Marcus’ incident goes to show
that no card is entirely infallible.

Ever the marketer, Marcus used the incident as an opportunity to
promote his company. “Obfuscating card data online, on mobile,
and now more and more offline remains one of PayPal's strongest
value props,” he tweeted.